Monthly Archives: May 2009

I hate Thursdays. I have for the last nine months. Let me give you an idea why. This is how my day goes . . . EVERY Thursday.

Get up. Get kids ready for school. Shower. Get Kelsey & Adam ready for day. Leave at 8:20 to take Adam to preschool. Drop off Adam at preschool – in Arlington. Run random errands and hang out at Moms because it’s too far to drive back and forth. Feed Kelsey lunch. Pack up lunch for Adam. Pick up Adam from preschool. Feed Adam lunch in car. Nap Kelsey in Car. Get home. Try to get Kelsey upstairs still asleep. Have about 45 minutes to unload groceries, do dishes, pick up house, fold laundry, etc. Leave to pick up kids from school. Home for 40 minutes. Have snack and do homework. Try to figure out something for dinner. Leave to take Emily to gymnastics. Sit in car and wait for Emily. Home to make dinner at 5:15.

Added to my schedule is the fact that I am normally going on less than adequate sleep. Jon is at the church late on Wednesday night, and I stay up to see him when he gets home. And a lot of Thursdays, I have something else after that. I think my favorite was the Cub Scout Blue & Gold Banquet that started at 6:00. I had to cook dinner for 60 people in 45 minutes. Thank heavens for planning and people willing to help. It is all just exhausting!

BUT, as of 5:15 today, it is officially over. Adam is done with preschool and Emily had her last gymnastics class. Woo hoo! Can you feel my joy and relief streaming to you over the internet? Seriously, it’s almost palpable. There are just not words. I survived! I get normal Thursdays back! Phew, I think I’m going to bed! 🙂

We survived! We had an absolute wonderful time at the beach! Here’s a quick recap of our adventures.

Monday – Arrived!

Tuesday – Spent the entire day on the beach. Have awesome sunburns to show for it. Spent next three days trying to figure out how to take a shower without actually getting any warm water on my skin. (Washing my hair involves a sort of limbo move.)

Wednesday – Did nothing most of the day! Read 2 books. Took a nap. Souvenir shopped. Picked up shells on the beach. Danced on the beach in the dark under the stars to some tunes from my iPod. (I use the term “danced” loosely . . . )

Thursday – Boogey boarded one last time. Packed up and headed home. Shopped at the outlet malls. Teared up when it was taking too long to get back to my family. I MISSED THEM!

Friday – GLAD TO BE HOME! Back to the normal stuff – loads and loads of laundry (but big shout out to Jon for doing most of the kids stuff), picking up the house (the giant pile on my stairs is almost gone), taking care of Emmy (who has been home sick from school for the last 2 days), watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (although it was hard to miss that one), blah, blah, blah.

Thanks to all my sisters and Mom for the fabulous trip. Thanks for putting up with me. Thanks to Mom for subsidizing our trip so we got to stay in a beautiful beach house instead of a tent. Thanks to CJ for dealing with the insanity of 6 kids while Jon was at work. Thanks to Jon for holding down the fort and keeping any of the kids from getting hurt. You all rock!

Adam has had two wiggly teeth for a month or so. Yesterday, we were eating lunch, and Adam started crying that his tooth hurt. I told him to open his mouth and saw blood and one of his teeth completely crooked. Upon further inspection, many tears (Adam’s my sensitive child) and a little nudge, Adam lost his first tooth. After he calmed down, he was totally excited! I can’t believe Adam has lost a tooth. I still think of him as my baby!

So, remember my last post about the swine flu? On Wednesday night, the Fort Worth School District (right next to us), closed all campuses until May 11th because they have several confirmed cases. I even saw my first person wearing a mask yesterday at Sam’s Club. Yeah, I kinda freaked out. To this point, I have:

*Grocery shopped – I stocked up on things, ya know, just in case. I bought things I didn’t even need. I now have 9 boxes of Mac & Cheese, 6 gallons of milk, 10 loaves of bread . . .

*Bought more hand sanitizer. (Most stores are actually out – I had to go to 4 stores to find any, and that was just a few small bottles)

*Bought my kids gummy vitamin C – which they must take every morning along with their regular vitamin C.

*Bought more antibacterial wipes (I’m totally addicted to these anyway – I didn’t want to run out if there was a shortage!)

*Sent my kids hand sanitizer to school.

*Made Jon go to the doctor since he’s been sick to be tested for Swine Flu – which he DOES NOT have!

*Called CJ (my bro-in-law who’s a doctor) to see if he could get me masks – just in case we need them. (He couldn’t because he just finished his rotations- but I decided that’s okay because I’d feel stupid wearing them anyway.)

I compulsively wipe down things with my antibacterial wipes. I make everyone use hand sanitizer any time we go somewhere other than our house. I check the internet a million times a day to make sure our school district is still okay.

The long and short of it is that I am neurotic. And I feel really stupid. Because if you actually talk to anyone in the medical field, they will all tell you this isn’t that big of a deal. Only 1% of the population will be adversely affected if they even get the swine flu. But, I had to make sure my little family was taken care of. And now that I’ve done all that, I feel totally fine. I’m not even worried. Weird.

On another note, I told Jon that I feel like we’re living in the last days before the Savior comes again. Jon looked at me like I was crazy and said, “We ARE living in the last days.” To which I looked at him and said, “I know, but this is the first time I FEEL like we’re living in the last days.” It’s just been an interesting feel to go out and see people buying entire carts of wipes or to see the hand sanitizer aisles crammed with people.